The Editing Room

On the set of the forthcoming “Shutter Island,” Martin Scorsese admitted to the young Argentinian director Celina Murga that he prefers the editing room to the set. In 1986, Jean-Luc Godard interviewed Woody Allen for a video called “Meetin’ WA,” in which Allen admitted the same thing, explaining why he preferred editing over shooting: “Because it’s not cold, because I’m not out in the street.” Allen added, “I do feel that I do a lot of my best work in editing, but it’s only my best work because I’ve made such a mess of it before.”

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